World War 4 Report was founded in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 to monitor media coverage of the wars and interventions we all knew were coming. We have since evolved into an alternative news source, with an emphasis on solidarity… Read moreWorld War 4 Report: Reloaded
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has said that his organization “is siding with the resistance in Iraq” in a speech to hundreds of thousands of supporters in Beirut. “The Iraqis, Shia and Sunni, who took part in the political process wanted… Read moreNasrallah: Hezbollah “siding with” Iraq resistance
In late 2006, when Mengistu Haile Mariam was found guilty of genocide by an Ethiopian court, we noted the irony that the verdict came as charges of mass killings of ethnic minorities were mounting against the current Ethiopian regime. Mengistu… Read moreEthiopia: Mengistu sentenced to death in absentia
A Czech activist, Jan Bednar, has been on hunger strike for two weeks to protest the “military occupation of the Czech Republic by the United States”—by which he means the plans to build a radar base for the new “missile… Read moreCzech hunger strike against US radar base
We recently asked if the folks at the Council on Foreign Relations who want to remake US policy on Latin America have Barack Obama’s ear. Here’s a sign that they do. After a too-long period of annoying vagueness, he finally… Read moreObama pledges new direction on Latin America
Breaking ranks with the loopiness of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his ilk, Bassem Naeem, health and information minister in the Hamas-led Palestinian administration in Gaza, explicitly acknowledges the historical fact of the Holocaust—while calling out Israel’s manipulation thereof. From The Guardian’s… Read moreHamas condemns Holocaust —Israel threatens a new one
On May 21, as oil prices leaped to an unprecedented $133 a barrel, Big Oil’s biggest executives got grilled on the Senate floor. “Where is the corporate conscience?” Sen. Dick Durbin asked execs from ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell Oil… Read moreOil execs play anti-Arab card to rape Alaska
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is under scrutiny for supposed links to Colombia’s FARC guerillas. In one “partially decoded” February e-mail supposedly recovered from the computer of late FARC commander Raúl Reyes, fellow FARC director Iván Márquez wrote that Ortega could… Read moreColombian “farcpolítica” scandal hits Nicaragua
In what the Colombian press is explicitly portraying as a “farcpolítica” scandal to rival the “parapolítica” outrage, chief prosecutor Mario Iguarán asked the Supreme Court to investigate three opposition legislators for alleged links to the FARC guerillas. The investigations were… Read moreColombia: seized guerilla computer leads to “farcpolítica” scandal
The New York Times‘s Nazila Fathi writes in a May 20 story entitled “Iranian Clerics Tell the President to Leave the Theology to Them”: TEHRAN — In his almost three years as president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been harshly… Read moreJohn Hagee and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: fearful symmetry
Nelly Ávila Moreno AKA Karina, commander of the FARC’s 47th Front, surrendered to agents of Colombia’s Administrative Security Department (DAS) May 18 in Sonsón, Antioquia. Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos called it an “important blow” against guerilla organization. Karina was… Read moreFARC 47th Front commander surrenders
Colombia’s Defense Ministry assured that the US air base now housed at Manta, Ecuador, would not be relocated to the Colombian Caribbean coastal zone of La Guajira—hours after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said Bogotá was “playing with fire,” and that… Read moreUS base plans escalate Colombia-Venezuela border tensions
